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TIL both Joseph Stalin (1939, 1942) and Adolf Hitler (1938) have won Time Person of the Year.

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awpYJ TIL the oldest advertisement was found on a Mesopotamian stone tablet from around 4000 BC, and it was an advertisement for beer
5yer TIL in 1973, a Libyan passenger jet having navigational problems wandered into Israeli airspace. When 2 Israeli F-4s intercepted the jet and instructed the crew to land, they refused because of bad Libyan-Israeli relations at the time. The jet was then shot down, killing 108 people.
9wrrp TIL that the national animal of Scotland is the unicorn
LkZe9 TIL that Giovanni Cassini measured the size of France accurately for the first time during the reign of King Louis XIV. The true size turned out to be much smaller than Louis had expected, and Louis quipped that Cassini had taken more of his kingdom from him than he had won in all his wars.
JY7Jk TIL that the word for roller coasters literally translates to "Russian Mountains" in many languages, due to the fact that roller coasters originate from slides made of ice in Russia around the 17th century. However, in Russian, they are known as "американские горки"--American Mountains.